High People-to-People
Dialogue
Session on Youth
Beijing, 6 September 2014
Education
and Culture
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Youth in Action programme (2007-2013)
Participants from China could take part in:
• European Voluntary Service
40 Chinese volunteers participated in EVS between 20112013
• Cooperation with other Countries of the World
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Number of Action3.2 projects approved and participants
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Project example: Changing Lives
Led by JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT YOUNG ENTERPRISE EUROPE (JA-YE)
NGOs involved: JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT CHINA and Bulgaria, Estonia, Sweden, Korea,
Denmark, Kenya and Brazil.
Aims
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Raise awareness about the importance of entrepreneurship education across the
world, and
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Introduce entrepreneurship as a career option by presenting successful role models.
Activities
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Visit of about 400 schools to introduce youth entrepreneurship to pupils,
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Training of 18 youth ambassadors, who then trained up to 180 other young people
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90 short videos on youth entrepreneurship,
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Creation of a Portal for the Changing Lives Campaign targeting 63,000 young people.
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Erasmus+
Non-formal learning opportunities for young people
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Erasmus+: Why a new approach?
Education, training and youth: a changing landscape
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Deep economic crisis and high youth unemployment
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Vacancies exist, but skills gaps and low employability of graduates
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Growing requirement for high skilled jobs
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A global competition for talent: internationalisation of education
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Extraordinary broadening of learning offer and potential of ICT
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Complementarity between formal, informal and non formal learning
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Need for closer links with world of work
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Link to policy objectives
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Europe 2020 targets:
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Raising higher education attainment from 32% to 40%
Reducing the share of early school leavers from 14% to less than 10%
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ET 2020 strategy
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The EU Youth Strategy (2010-2018)
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The European dimension in Sport / EU Work Plan on Sport
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The strong international dimension, particularly as regards
higher education and youth
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Erasmus+ youth specific objectives
» Improve the level of key competences of young people;
» Promote young people's participation in democratic life;
» Foster quality improvements in youth work;
» Enhance cooperation between youth organisations;
» Complement policy reforms at local, regional and national level;
» Support the evidence-based youth policy making;
» Foster the recognition of non-formal learning;
» Strenghten the international dimension of youth cooperation and
promote youth mobility.
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Activities under Erasmus+
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Key Action 1 (Continuity of Youth in Action)
- Youth Exchanges
- European Voluntary Service
- Mobility and training of youth workers
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Key Action 2 (including cooperation with Partner Countries)
- Strategic Partnerships
- Capacity Building
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Key Action 3
- Structured Dialogue: young people + decision makers
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Eligible Partner Countries
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Asia, incuding China
Central Asia
Latin America
Iran, Iraq, Yemen
South Africa
ACP countries
Industrialised countries
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Key Action 2 : Capacity Building (1)
Aims:
• To foster cooperation and exchanges in the field of youth
between Programme Countries and Partner Countries from
different regions of the world (ACP, Latin America, Asia,
Industrialised Countries)
Main activities:
• Strategic cooperation between youth organisations on the one
hand and public authorities on the other hand in Partner
Countries
• Cooperation between youth organisations and organisations in the
education and training fields as well as with representatives of
business and labour market, as well as with NGOs
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Key Action 2 : Capacity Building (2)
Main activities:
• Raise the capacities of youth councils, youth platforms and
national, regional and local authorities dealing with youth in
Partner Countries
• Enhance the management, governance, innovation capacity and
internationalisation of youth organisations
• Launch, test and implement youth work practices
• Implement youth mobility activities from/to Partner Countries
(Youth Exchanges, European Voluntary Service, youth workers'
mobility)
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"Embedded Mobility":
Key Action 1-type mobility activities between
Programme and Partner countries
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Youth exchanges:
5 – 21 days
13 – 30 years
16 – 60 participants
Must take place in the country of one of the participating organisations
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European Voluntary Service:
2 – 12 months
17 – 30 years
up to 30 participants
Volunteer from Programme Country volunteers in Partner Country
Volunteer from Partner Country volunteers in Programme Country
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Mobility of youth workers:
5 days – 2 months
no age limit
up to 50 participants
Must take place in the country of one of the participating organisations
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• Duration: 9 months to 2 years
• Maximum grant: 150 000 €
• Transnational: minimum 3 participating organisations
from 3 different countries
of which
at least 1 Programme Country + at least 1 Partner Country
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Project examples
- Cooperation between youth organisations and public
authorities to launch an international volunteering
programme in the region of Partner Countries (following
the model of EVS)
- Cooperation between youth organisations and labour
market representatives to develop tools for the
recognition of skills acquired through non-formal
education, volunteering and alternative educational
pathways
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Competences
Asia, Africa, America and many others
Peer education
Approach is bottom-up
Cross sectorial - formal education, labour market
Innovation, impact on structures
Transnational
Young people and youth workers
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Thank you for
your
attention
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Date: in 12 pts